November 9, 2014, Sunday

Between $1.2 billion and $1.6 billion in Iraqi funds were stolen after the American invasion and moved to rural Lebanon, a former United States investigator said for the first time, but the trail ended there.

October 12, 2014, Sunday

As President Obama prepares to send the United States on what could be a yearslong military campaign, American intelligence agencies have concluded that the group poses no immediate threat to the United States.

September 11, 2014, Thursday

Not long after the security firm’s top manager in Iraq told a State Department investigator “that he could kill” him, an inquiry was abandoned. Weeks later, the firm’s guards killed 17 civilians in Iraq.

June 30, 2014, Monday

The National Security Agency’s reliance on facial recognition technology has grown as it has used new software to exploit images in emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications.